4 accepted papers
We propose a novel model of a virtual energy storage system (ESS) that leverages the aggregate battery capacity of parked and idling electric vehicles (EVs). Such an energy service is offered to a community of prosumers as a temporary energy buffer and managed by a parking lot manager (PLM), which a…
Electroadhesion suction cup (EASC) are fully-electrical grippers (no air flow needed) with very low power consumption that can grasp flat to curved objects from the top. They conform to the shape of the object by zipping from the central contact point to their edges, driven by Electroadhesion forces…
This paper presents an application of human-drone interaction (HDI) for inventory management in a ware-house 4.0 that aims at improving the operators' safety and well-being together with increasing efficiency and reducing production costs. In our work, the speed and separation monitoring (SSM) metho…
In this paper, we show how first-order hybrid Petri nets can be efficiently used to model and manage intermodal freight transport terminals. The proposed formalism enables the terminal decision maker to choose the speeds associated with continuous transitions in order to optimize the terminal perfor